Southern Allure star Venita Aspen isn’t completely satisfied about the way in which she is being offered on the present — particularly in the case of her alleged reference to costar Jarret “JT” Thomas.
“Let me make one thing VERY CLEAR,” Aspen wrote in a fiery Instagram Story shared on Saturday, March 1. “That dinner JT and I had after I made a Branzino was AFTER the Bahamas yall as an viewers noticed it BEFORE.”
“So this weeks episode is now making me seem like I’m a house wrecker after I’m not,” she continued. “I do know what I signed up for however I additionally won’t permit the world to suppose I’m that lady after I’m not.”
“Be sure you add this screenshot to all the Reddit threads,” she concluded.
Us Weekly has reached out to Bravo for remark.
Within the February 6 episode of Bravo’s hit actuality tv sequence, JT and Aspen mentioned their apparent chemistry earlier than JT in the end tells her that he has began courting another person. “Do I do know we had chemistry? Am I extraordinarily drawn to you? Sure,” he informed her on the time. “However, I’m simply being actual, I’m seeing somebody.”
“I received’t say I knew he had a girlfriend, I can say I knew he was speaking to somebody however it wasn’t a ‘that is who I’m courting,” Aspen mentioned within the confessional sales space throughout the identical episode. She added, “I’m equally half offended and equally half unhappy, ’trigger how lengthy have we been flirting?”
The so-called drama continued throughout a preview of one other episode, through which Aspen is seen telling one other forged member JT has been texting her. “He has emotions for you? Like greater than a good friend, or no?” the particular person requested, to which Aspen nodded and smiled.
Whereas talking on the “The Viall Information” podcast on Tuesday, February 25, Aspen mentioned the girl JT was courting determined to “annihilate me on social media” after a teaser for the sequence aired.
“That he was courting, that I used to be unaware of,” she mentioned on the time. “And mainly, like, calls me out on my identify. And I used to be similar to, ‘Hey, I don’t what’s happening with this. I would like you to place a deal with on it.’ And he was like, ‘I can’t do something about it.’”
JT raised eyebrows when he left the sequence within the weeks earlier than the premiere of season 10. “I feel it turned extra of this, like, he caught the house on fire after which stepped away when everybody had a response — and never a very good one,” mentioned former costar Madison LeCroy in December 2024. “He was not wished within the group.”
LeCroy additionally mentioned she felt like JT wished to be a villain on the sequence. “He realized actually fast that wasn’t going to final,” she added.
